Look for bugs bunny, he usally makes a right turn when he should have made a left.

https://youtu.be/e8TUwHTfOOU

By Gregory S Flusche (Vandar) on Sunday, June 14, 2020 - 03:57 pm: Edit

How about Norfolk VA.

By Andy Koch (Droid) on Monday, June 15, 2020 - 09:47 am: Edit

Scott:
Catan and Ticket to Ride are less expensive options and are excellent games.
They're not as tactically rich as a true wargame, but fun nonetheless

By Andy Koch (Droid) on Monday, June 15, 2020 - 09:47 am: Edit

Anyone played ROOT?

By Tony L. Thomas (Scoutdad) on Monday, June 15, 2020 - 12:19 pm: Edit

Scott:
I have both Catan and TTR.
They are both considered Gateway games. Tactically, they are no where near as challenging as SFB, or Fed Comm... or even ACTASF. But the rules are simple, they can be played quickly (the box says 45 to 60 minutes, but my kids and I regularly knock out TTR in 30 and Catan in 45 minutes), and since a large factor is luck - even the tactically challenged can win. And since they are gateway games - you can use them to lead players into more complicated or more tactical games.

I would highly recommend both of them... just for the ability to find numerous opponents, if for no other reason. And if you check the BGG marketplace, you can often find gently used copies for significantly less that retail - not that retail is very much on these titles.

By Scott Moellmer (Goofy) on Tuesday, June 16, 2020 - 11:05 am: Edit

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Thnx, folks.

By Paul Howard (Raven) on Monday, June 22, 2020 - 06:16 am: Edit

To add to what what Andy and Scott said, Settlors of Catan, Ticket to Ride and Carcassonne - are very very simple games to lean and so are ideal for new gamers to play.

For experienced gamers - all three have enough depth to partially overcome some bad luck (in Settlors, we always find one number gets rolled far more often than it does - 9 or 11 or something - and so the good players sitting on the 6's and 8's moan like heck!)

I would say, some of the newer Ticket to Ride version have broken their key rule of simplicity (there is a Western US Map - which includes Shares and a UK and Ireland Map which has 'research') - both make the game a lot more difficult and harder to learn.

A German Map (which I have) - adds Meeples, which are pretty easy to understand but perhaps for experienced players make it a lot easier to win (as the Meeples are worth alot of VP's if you have the most, a modest amount if you have the second highest and none if your third or lower - and there are different colours of meeples to collect- so a new player might collect 2 of each colour and have 10 meeples, and the 5 other players collect 4 meeples of just two colours, so only 8 meeples in total - but the other players score 15 Vp's each and the person with the most total of meeples, nothing as it just based on each colour total).

So check which version you are buying.

We play all three games on a regular basis at our Wargames Club - as usually we have about 60 minutes before everyone arrives for the main game (we all work in different areas and so getting to the club is more difficult for some) and so playing a quick game or two for those arriving first makes sense.

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Friday, July 24, 2020 - 03:49 pm: Edit

At lunch today, we had a discussion about bridge.

My father said that he'd heard the DoD prefers bridge to chess because with chess, the board is open to everyone participating, but with bridge, the players never know what anyone else, even his/her partner, has in their hand. The only thing anyone playing can guess on is based on what everyone bids.

It also occurred to me that bridge can also build trust in their partners; a trust that develop synergy with their fellow service people.

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Saturday, July 25, 2020 - 01:48 am: Edit

Carcassonne a family favorite

Euchre is another card partner trust building type game. (But occasionally you can go it alone.)

By Gary Carney (Nerroth) on Thursday, August 20, 2020 - 04:33 pm: Edit

Netflix recently uploaded a 6-part documentary series about the early-to-mid history of the video game industry*, called High Score. (Here is the show's Easter egg-filled opening sequence.)

Has anyone here seen it, or intends to?

*or, at least, as it was in Japan and North America - there's not a lot of European content in the series, alas.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Sunday, November 08, 2020 - 02:08 pm: Edit

The Sudoku YouTube channel "Cracking The Cryptic" has a Kick-Starter campaign running. There's nine days left and only $26K to go to hit the last three stretch goals. I put my $19 in already.


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By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Monday, November 09, 2020 - 01:25 pm: Edit

Eight days and $23K to go.


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By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Tuesday, November 10, 2020 - 02:11 pm: Edit

Cracking The Cryptic kick-starter has seven days and less than $18.5K to go to reach all stretch goals. The hit the goal that adds more puzzles to the book.


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By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Thursday, November 12, 2020 - 02:23 am: Edit

CtC kick-starter === Five days left and less than $500 to reach the next-to-last stretch goal, then another $10K to hit the final goal.


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By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Thursday, November 12, 2020 - 10:29 am: Edit

So, it looks like Cracking The Cryptic will probably hit the $150K stretch goal (now sitting at $141K w/ 5 days to go), so they added a new $160K goal to the list. "By special request: if we can hit $160,000, everyone who pledges for a copy of the book will also receive a PDF copy!" Cool. Very cool.


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By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Saturday, November 14, 2020 - 11:45 am: Edit

Only three days left for the Cracking the Cryptic kick-starter campaign. They are at 5800 backers and $151,652 == less than $8400 from the final stretch goal!!!


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By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Sunday, November 15, 2020 - 08:15 am: Edit

Down to 58 hours and $3200 to go!! I think they're going to make it.


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By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Sunday, November 15, 2020 - 05:30 pm: Edit

Final stretch goal achieved with 50 hours to go! There's still time left on the clock, if you want to jump in. This should be The Best Sudoku Puzzle Book *EVER*.


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By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - 03:33 pm: Edit

Incredible! Still three more hours to go, but they have added another $25K to the total raised since Sunday. It's now at $185,706 with 7211 backers, and counting. Wow!


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By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - 03:21 pm: Edit

My father is 79 years old and I am trying to figure out a 2 player board game he and I can play. Ideally it would not take more then 2-3 hours, could be shorter if the game is good. He is sorta old school and I don't think he would be willing to invest enough brain power on anything that has a huge ton of rules. I think it would be ok if it were a co-op game of some sort like Pandemic (but not Pandemic, since he is afraid of - the Pandemic.)

Got any ideas?

By Douglas Lampert (Dlampert) on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - 03:38 pm: Edit

Cribbage works for some people. Not really a board game though, but it's fairly simple rules, fast to play, and two-player.

Ticket to Ride allegedly works for 2.

By Mike Dowd (Mike_Dowd) on Thursday, December 31, 2020 - 03:29 am: Edit

Catan?

By Mike Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Thursday, December 31, 2020 - 12:20 pm: Edit

Chess.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Thursday, December 31, 2020 - 01:27 pm: Edit

I remember as a teen watching old guys play checkers. At the time, I was big into chess, so I thought that was lame that old men were playing a kid's game. That is, until one of them challenged me to a game. Man, was I wrong. Those guys were ruthless. I lost the first, oh, fifty games before I got lucky and won once. Then I lost the next fifty or so.


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By Andy Koch (Droid) on Thursday, December 31, 2020 - 01:37 pm: Edit

Jack:
I recommend Ticket to Ride. Once you get the hang of it it takes an hr maybe. It's also expandable.